Colm O'Regan: Marking life's milestones in my car

I don’t think I can get across to my family how important this moment is... I need to take a photo of the car’s odometer at 299,999, and again further down the road at 300,000

Colm O'Regan: "An odometer is a device for measuring distance. My father used to call it a mile-ometer but everything is kilometres now so it’s odometer rather than kilometer-ometer."

"Why are we stopping?” ask the family as I pull the car in. I can hear myself explaining why, but I don’t think I can get across to them how important this moment is... I need to take a photo of the car’s odometer at 299,999, and again further down the road at 300,000.

An odometer is a device for measuring distance. My father used to call it a mile-ometer but it’s all kilometres now so it’s odometer rather than kilometer-ometer.